Re: Looking for Microcontroller Recommendations

Jan 14, 2010 4 Replies
J


AFAIK is Atmel's Jtag protocol proprietary.


More of the newer data sheets contain everything you need to know to program over JTAG. Older data sheet didn't, although back in 2001 or thereabouts I worked at a place where we wanted to program AVRs in-circuit via JTAG, and at the time Atmel was willing to hand over the programming information if you signed an NDA with them.


Hence if anything I'd say Atmel is one of the easier parts to use if you want to program via JTAG.


That being said, the JTAG standard itself is a bit more complicated than SPI, so given the option, I'd chose the later.


---Joel



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Joel Koltner schrieb:

I am still curious if debugging is possible as well, using free tools like OpenOcd. Price is not a great issue, but as I am running Linux, I hesitate to buy tools that can be run under Windows only.

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Same here. I have an ARM-board here, where programming via JTAG is annoyingly slow.

SPI seems to be the fastest way to program an AVR, besides parallel programming, which I never tried. But some USB- and serial Programmers manage to make SPI unusuable slow, because their serial communication with the SPI-Master is 19k2 only...

Falk PS: An almost free AVR-Development board is described here:

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Joel Koltner schrieb:

Pharmaceutical company give them away including a few test strips. The test strips are 50 Eurocent to 1 EUR each.

Some people sell the devices on ebay: 360224657755

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In the US, ebay folks seem to be asking a fair amount more than that -- shipping probably adding still more profit. Too bad.

Jon

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